Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dual meets with both Dartmouth and Princeton will be held in the Stadium, and for those still in Cambridge after exam period, Harvard will combine with Yale to face the aggregrate strength of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, over for the 22nd of June...
After dinner, however, when the artists and musicians return to studying for their hour exam the next day, all are grateful that John Hicks built a house in 1726 which can now be used for a library. In one of its nine rooms on three floors, Kirkland House members can retreat from their roommates and tutors, and find a soft chair in which to study or fall asleep. Another location where much occurs is the Junior Common Room, where forums, concerts, and meetings punctuate the eternal magazine reading and piano playing...
...high-level study of extant course material or individual study of new material related to the course, Reading Period might in fact do its hypothetical duty. They would have to be conscious of another unpleasantry in human nature, of course, and verify their students' diligence either on the final exam or by other means. Students would have to cooperate to the extent of aiming at something besides a good mark in the course, which admittedly, is asking a good deal. If Reading Period could be reinstated to its original pupose, by straightening up the teachers and straightening out their pupils...
...three-term system also gives a greater degree of freedom for independent study during the term. Shortening the term should make mid-term examinations inadvisable, and so exam cramming is confined to two weeks at the end of each period, making six weeks of cramming a year necessary instead of the present ten or twelve...
...group began to discuss the revision of undergraduate organiation rules, one member left to study for an hour exam, and destroyed the quorum...